$29.95	Putting Research to Work in Elementary Physical Education: Conversations in the Gym (Book) Features 30 clear summaries of studies on elementary physical education instruction, class management, program design, workplace conditions, and more Includes practical tips for navigating the typical research report to improve the ability of teachers to glean new ideas and useful facts from research Shows the differences between the vantage point of the researcher and that of the teaching practitioner, and how to find the common ground between the two Covers new teaching strategies, measuring instruments, and program alternatives-and how to think about teaching physical education in more sophisticated ways This textbook and reference provides teachers [...].
$29.95	Seminar in Physical Education: From Student Teaching to Teaching Students - 1st Edition (Book) Seminar in Physical Education: From Student Teaching to Teaching Students is a concise and complete text that offers a fresh approach to preparing pre service teachers for today's teaching and employment challenges. In addressing NASPE Standards 1 through 10 (based on National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education requirements for teacher preparation), this book is an ideal supplemental text for use during the student teaching semester or other practicum experience, helping pre service teachers reflect on their experiences in the school setting. In addition, Seminar in Physical Education, helps students build professional portfolios through su [...].
$22.95	Physical Education Tips from the Trenches Book (Copyright 2002, 248 pages) Teaching physical education is a wonderful opportunity to help young people develop physically active and healthy lifestyles. But, as any physical education teacher knows, there are many challenges on and off the field Ñ ones that you never learn about from textbooks or methods classes. Physical Education Tips From the Trenches is a lighthearted and inspiring resource that presents 83 solutions to real-world obstacles that every elementary physical education teacher struggles with sooner or later: An all-day talent show that ruins your best-laid plans A mother who fears her child will get hurt in your class A fellow teacher who punishes her students by [...].
$38.95	Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness: The Physical Best Teacher's Guide - Second Edition (Book) Through this guide, teachers can do the following: Revitalize their curriculum with cutting-edge information Learn to implement health-related fitness education in a comprehensive manner Get up to date on the latest guidelines for teaching health-related fitness Build their personal toolbox for student motivation, goal setting, curriculum integration, and assessment of fitness Learn the foundational knowledge for teaching health-related fitness Just as there are no shortcuts to health and fitness, there are no shortcuts taken in this authoritative guide. Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness: The Physical Best Teacher's Guide, Second Edition, covers [...].
$34.99	Autism: Equipment Turn-on's for Adapted Physical Education (DVD) With Ann Griffin 2005 National Adapted Physical Education Teacher of the Year Feel it, hear it, shake it, try it on equipment turn-on's that help you get started teaching students with autism. This video features students with autism in adapted physical education classes at both the elementary and middle school levels. A wide range of multi-sensory equipment selected to entice participation and develop play skills will be presented. Successful teaching strategies will focus on facilitating communication and transitioning between activities. 46 minutes. 2004.
$29.95	Learning by Choice in Secondary Physical Education Book (Copyright 2001, 264 pages) Do your high school students get excited when it's time for physical education class? Do they cooperate É participate É perform with little direction? You can stop laughing, because now there's help for you to develop individualized physical education programs so motivating, every student will get hooked on exercise Ñ even the couch potatoes. In Learning by Choice in Secondary Physical Education: Creating a Goal-Directed Program, Kevin Kaardal describes an innovative, step-by-step program that he developed and perfected while teaching physical education for many years at the middle and high school levels. Teachers love it because it reduces downtime, i [...].
$24.95	40 Years in the Gym - 1st Edition (Book) Author Donald Glover brings together four decades worth of successful physical education teaching in 40 Years in the Gym: Favorite Physical Education Activities , a compilation of favorite activities he has created, collected, adapted, and used to teach physical education at all levels. This easy-to-use collection of tried-and-true activities spans the spectrum of physical education curriculum, covering the following subjects and more: Class organization and warm-ups Character education Team building Movements and skills, including rhythms, gymnastics and tumbling, and sport and fitness skills Obstacle courses and stations Interdisciplinary activities [...].
$41.95	Elementary Physical Education Teaching and Assessment - 2nd Edition (Book) Assessments are a part of a physical educator's daily life. But most teachers struggle to find enough time to analyze their curriculum and develop assessments to track students learning. Enter Elementary Physical Education Teaching & Assessment: A Practical Guide, Second Edition . This guide is designed to make the assessment process not only easier but also more manageable. Assessment becomes not a burden in a teacher's life but an essential teaching tool that assists students in learning what they need to learn-and indeed can motivate and challenge them to take charge of their learning.
$80.95	Developmental Physical Education for All Children - 4th Edition (Book) Developmental Physical Education for All Children, Fourth Edition , is now automatically packaged with an online subscription access code for a 6-month subscription to the Journal of Teaching Physical Education (JTPE) . With the inclusion of the code, students will have access to the latest scholarly articles on physical education. JTPE features research articles based on classroom and laboratory studies, descriptive and survey studies, summary and review articles, and discussion of current topics of interest to physical educators at every level. The text Developmental Physical Education for All Children, Fourth Edition , has been thoroughly updated an [...].
$29.95	Student-Centered Physical Education Book (Copyright 1998, 264 pages) Student-Centered Physical Education presents over 100 fun physical activities that not only promote student fitness and skill development but also build the foundation for a physically active life. The authors modular approach allows teachers to mix and match activities in order to achieve specific goals, creating multiple opportunities within each class period for students to succeed. Authors Timothy Smith and Nicholas Cestaro, who together have more than 50 years of teaching experience, have developed a student-centered approach to physical education to replace the outdated, subject-driven approach. By focusing on the needs of the preadolescent stude [...].
$51.95	Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education (book - Second Edition) Make teaching easier and more effective with Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education! This cookbook-style guide contains more than 150 ready-to-use lesson plans--enough for every day of the school year. These classroom-tested lessons with developmentally appropriate activities enable middle school, junior high school, and high school physical educators to greatly reduce their planning time. Undergraduate students in professional practice will also benefit--reduced planning time means they can concentrate on refining their teaching skills. You ll find four sections in Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education: physical fitness, [...].
$32.95	PE-4-ME Book (Copyright 2000, 272 pages) When educator Cathie Summerford started teaching sixth-graders in 1993, she wanted to create an interdisciplinary physical education program Ñ one that builds healthy minds as well as bodies and prepares children for a lifetime of wellness and fitness. She broke new ground with a theme-based approach to physical education that children and teachers love. In PE-4-ME: Teaching Lifelong Health and Fitness, you ll find Cathie's blueprint for a unique K-12 program that integrates physical activity with movement concepts, social skills, stress reduction, nutrition, school safety, and drug resistance education. Cathie stresses brain-compatible learning - the [...].
$22.95	Physical Education Unit Plans for Grades 5 and 6 - 2nd Edition (Book) Spend less time planning and more time personalizing lessons with these practical guides. Previously compiled in a two-book set titled Physical Education Teaching Units for Program Development , these highly acclaimed unit plans provide a detailed scope and sequence for an early childhood movement program and an elementary physical education program. The 135 units in these four books integrate movement concepts and skills into games, gymnastics, and dance experiences that children really enjoy. They contain clear objectives, sample assessments, and fitness activities that reflect the National Standards for Physical Education and the National Standards [...].
$44.95	Outdoor Education: Methods and Strategies - 1st Edition (Book) Methods and Strategies will show students how to use physical, cognitive, and affective methods to teach lessons in different settings to different audiences; link educational theories to teaching methods and choose the best method for each setting; and implement strategies with easy-to-use forms and lesson plans. Outdoor Education: Methods and Strategies provides all the necessary information and tools for teaching outdoor education. It applies educational theories to outdoor teaching methods and helps educators choose the instructional strategy that will work best for their audience, whether they re in a school, nature center, adventure center, camp, [...].
$21.95	Fitness for Children (book) Proven techniques and activities that turn kids on to fitness In Fitness for Children, one of America's best-known elementary fitness educators shares kid-tested strategies for turning children on to health and fitness. Curt Hinson, veteran elementary physical education specialist and author of the popular Teaching Elementary Physical Education (TEPE) column Tips From the Trenches, offers more than a collection of isolated games and activities. His innovative classroom methods help you lay the foundation for an effective fitness education program. You ll find 45 activities and strategies as well as 80 exercises and 40 homework assignments that furnish [...].
$24.95	Designing Effective Instructional Tasks for Physical Education and Sports - 1st Edition (Book) Use Designing Effective Instructional Tasks for Physical Education and Sports to understand contemporary perspectives about learning, create learning tasks that will motivate participants, and design tasks for use with participants of all ages and abilities. There's more to helping participants develop motor skills than just coming up with relevant drills; if you want participants to succeed, you need to structure learning tasks to keep them interested, motivated, and engaged. But, while there are many resources available to help teachers and coaches improve their curriculum, teaching skills, and management, little has been written about the critical i [...].
$68.95	Teaching Dance as Art in Education - 1st Edition (Book) Teaching Dance as Art in Education is a comprehensive introductory textbook that helps dance education majors and dance specialists understand and incorporate the aesthetic foundations of educational dance in grades K-12. Unlike other models of teaching dance, this book delineates what a standards-oriented, aesthetically driven program should encompass for both the dance specialist and his or her K-12 students. Teaching Dance as Art in Education fosters an understanding of dance as arts education and defines the dance specialist's roles and responsibilities, including how the national arts initiatives and student-centered inquiry affect the teaching of [...].
$32.95	Adapted Physical Education National Standards - 2nd Edition (Book) In every field, standards provide a guiding light in terms of the basic knowledge, skills, and attitudes a professional should have. For physical educators of students with disabilities, Adapted Physical Education National Standards, Second Edition , is the essential resource to understanding and delivering top-quality adapted physical education. This text is the only complete guide to the adapted physical education national standards (APENS). Every adapted physical educator must know these standards in order to pass the APENS exam and become a certified adapted physical educator (CAPE).
$30.95	Paraeducators in Physical Education: A Training Guide to Roles and Responsibilities - 1st Edition (Book) Through Paraeducators in Physical Education: A Training Guide to Roles and Responsibilities , you can help paraeducators support students with disabilities in physical education; understand their roles and responsibilities in physical education; and discover strategies for communication, collaboration, behavior management, and instruction. Paraeducators work in virtually every school-but until now, no systematic training program has existed to teach them how to work effectively with children in physical education settings. Paraeducators in Physical Education: A Training Guide to Roles and Responsibilities is a comprehensive yet easy-to-use training pac [...].
$34.99	Toys from Trash: Inexpensive Equipment Options for Physical Education (DVD) With Ann Griffin 2005 National Adapted Physical Education Teacher of the Year Milk jugs, telephone books, foam pipe insulation, bubble wrap and recyclables. Discover alternative and creative uses of items to enhance movement experiences for all students in physical education. This video features innovative uses of free or inexpensive items. Find out how you can equip your gym and students even with dwindling budgets. One man's trash is another man's treasure or equipment for physical education. You ll never look at your trash in the same way again! 28 minutes. 2004.
$35.95	A-Level Physical Education Book (Copyright 2002, 384 pages) Written by an outstanding team of authors, A-Level Physical Education: The Reflective Performer was created to meet the specific subject criteria that the Qualifications Curriculum Authority (QCA) has stipulated for the development of A-level specifications in physical education in England and Wales. This indispensable text is comprehensive, accessible and up to date. The content of the text corresponds perfectly to the QCA criteria for A-level study in sport, preparing students as thoroughly as possible for course exams and university-level study. The book presents comprehensive coverage of every dimension of performance studied in A-level physical ed [...].
$34.95	Physical Education Assessment Toolkit - 1st Edition (Book) Tailor assessments to every topic, skill, and concept taught in physical education. Help students make connections between concepts to enhance learning. Meet a wide range of learning styles and teach to all intelligence s, including linguistic, spatial, visual, and kinesthetic. Incorporate learning into the assessment process by calling on various levels of thinking, such as recall, summary application, and evaluation. In today's physical education framework, the demands on your time and energy are great. Every second of class time is precious, so an efficient method of assessment that can plug into any lesson or unit being taught is a highly sought-af [...].
$39.95	PE4life: Developing and Promoting Quality Physical Education - 1st Edition (Book and DVD) Almost 65 percent of adults in the United States are overweight or obese-and children are on pace to be significantly fatter in their own adulthood than today's adults. Making matters worse, the number of physical education classes in schools is plummeting as well. So how can schools with diminishing PE budgets be successful? By following the blueprint provided in PE4life: Developing and Promoting Quality Physical Education . This book and DVD package is part inspiration, part toolkit, and part textbook. Those parts combine to make it the ideal resource for anyone involved in developing and promoting quality physical education programs.
$49.95	Psychology for Physical Educators: Student in Focus - 2nd Edition (Book) Enhancing children's positive attitudes toward physical education and creating a motivationally favorable atmosphere are now considered as important as developing other aspects of physical fitness. Psychology for Physical Educators, Second Edition , gives physical educators the psychological knowledge and practical guidelines necessary for realizing current curriculum goals. Unlike the general textbooks on educational psychology that are currently available, Psychology for Physical Educators, Second Edition , relates directly to the physical education domain. It offers physical educators practical ideas and pedagogical solutions that work in diverse se [...].
$32.95	Senior Physical Education: An Integrated Approach - 2nd Edition (Book) An Integrated Approach, Second Edition, includes the following: Updated information to help you organize your instruction based on current Queensland Syllabus Physical Education guidelines An attractive design that involves students in the content and highlights important information for greater student retention New and updated elements that expand students learning and develop concepts further through real-life examples relevant to students Chapter-by-chapter study aids to create deeper connections for students and provide opportunities to apply concepts to real life Everything you need to create and deliver an effective course - including a free ins [...].
$29.95	Old Favorites, New Fun: PE Activities for Children - 1st Edition (Book) Activities become old favorites for one reason: Throughout the years, kids enjoy participating in them. But even old favorites can become stale after a while. Not so with Old Favorites, New Fun: Physical Education Activities for Children . This book, written by a physical educator with 30 years of experience, provides creative twists and refreshing modifications of classic activities, resulting in a wealth of choices to fit into and supplement your existing physical education curriculum. This book provides more than 350 thoroughly field-tested activities addressing core physical education content themes. These revitalized traditional activities help yo [...].
$32.95	It's Not Just Gym Anymore Book (Copyright 2001, 256 pages) Learn how to get kids more involved in their physical education classes Ñ and how to get them to stay active beyond high school! In It's Not Just Gym Anymore, national high school physical education teacher of the year Bane McCracken shows you how to develop a program that prepares students to be physically active after they graduate. Just as kids wonder how they ll use certain academic skills later in life, they may also question how physical education activities, such as learning to play volleyball, will help them after they leave school. The approach in this book doesn t just help students recognize and learn physical skills and understand why physi [...].
$24.95	Character Education: 43 Fitness Activities for Community Building - 1st Edition (Book) Improve cooperation, problem solving, sporting behavior, and empathy in the physical education setting. Meet standards 5, 6, and 7 of the NASPE standards. Learn effective tools for class management. Gain assessment techniques for demonstrating achievement of standards Foster emotional and social connections in physical education classes with the activities presented in Character Education: 43 Fitness Activities for Community Building . This book takes the idea and practice of team building to a higher level while helping teachers meet National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) standards in physical education. Don Glover, a widely kno [...].
$25.95	Physical Education Self-Management for Healthy, Active Lifestyles - 1st Edition (Book) If you want your students to learn to develop personal action plans for healthy and active lifestyles, then this is the book for you. Physical Education Self-Management for Healthy, Active Lifestyles guides you in developing health and fitness programs for students in grades 4 to 9 or ages 9 to 14. The text empowers you to help students assume control over, and responsibility for, healthy and active lifestyles. Written by Jeff Carpenter, a nationally recognized Physical Best instructor, this book is the ideal companion to the Physical Best program, FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM, and the Fitness for Life program. It contains specific progressions and activit [...].
$44.73	Integrating Fitness Components into a High School Physical Education Curriculum (DVD) Integrating Fitness Components into a High School Physical Education Curriculum explains how to incorporate balance, agility, speed, coordination, strength, flexibility, endurance, power, and stability into a physical education class. The DVD reviews the importance of each of the basic components of fitness and then shows basic drills and exercises that can be used in any level of a physical education class to develop a particular component. Among the topics covered: moving beyond traditional exercises, using basic movement patterns to incorporate fitness components, holistic approaches, setting up in any area, and challenging all ability levels. Produ [...].

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